{"id":51333,"date":"2015-06-01T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/wheres-all-that-republican-religious-freedom-outrage-now.html"},"modified":"2015-06-01T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:20:07","slug":"wheres-all-that-republican-religious-freedom-outrage-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/wheres-all-that-republican-religious-freedom-outrage-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Where&#039;s all that Republican &quot;religious freedom&quot; outrage now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#39;If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site, or for that matter Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill &mdash; no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. Clearly the Arizona congressional delegation isn&rsquo;t afraid of a couple of million conquered natives.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Surely there is something in the Sacred Book of RFRA, Much Beloved of the GOP (Though Passed as a Bi-Partisan Bill at the Time) that will allow this to be blocked. If corporations can be considered &quot;people&quot; who can have sacrosanct religious opinions that exempt them from the law, surely a people&#39;s holy site can be saved from a mining company.<\/p>\n<p>(Added irony: the site was first deemed off-limits to mining by Eisenhower, later confirmed in Nixon&#39;s administration &#8230; now sneakily sold off by modern-day Republicans McCain and Flake.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/29\/opinion\/selling-off-apache-holy-land.html?_r=0&#038;referrer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OI2fxiTl-6H2TlXraJ3oY4LEe2Lx3WMBcXFTE7L4yf7Ap9DIVz8qf2CYKgrdKzoez69I1pphsHvDqWLq_yp0INXJRTNGNER_EGN-5-Ws2H2kIUP0PsKgfeDCIh3b14JWzbMDKsIhyvE=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/29\/opinion\/selling-off-apache-holy-land.html?_r=0&#038;referrer'>Selling Off Apache Holy Land &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhat motivated Congress to give Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site, to a mining company that will certainly destroy it?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/6Efg1gUrfYy'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site, or for that matter Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill &mdash; no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. Clearly the Arizona &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/wheres-all-that-republican-religious-freedom-outrage-now.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where&#039;s all that Republican &quot;religious freedom&quot; outrage now?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29031,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/asteroid-mining-cool.html","url_meta":{"origin":51333,"position":0},"title":"Asteroid Mining? 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